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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Coming soon! 'St Fagans Castle: The Architectural and Social History of a Welsh Country House' by @bethanscorey.bsky.social is the first comprehensive study of St Fagans Castle, richly illustrated with over sixty photos and pictures. Publishing on 15 November! 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/book/st-faga...

Book cover which features a photo of the house below a bright blue sky.

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ends midnight tonight! Follow the link below to receive 25% off your pre-order of 'St Fagans Castle' by @bethanscorey.bsky.social! Available only on the @waterstones.bsky.social website 📚️ Use code SUMMER26 at checkout!

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

📚️ Pre-order Discounts Now Live 📚️ Follow the link below for 25% off your pre-order 'St Fagans Castle' by @bethanscorey.bsky.social! Use code SUMMER26 at checkout. Offer ends midnight 24 July! www.waterstones.com/book/st-faga...

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25% OFF RRP
Books Coming Soon
Pre-order now with code: SUMMER26
21-24 July
Online Only
Selected lines only
T&Cs available on Waterstones.com

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

📚️ New Catalogue! 📚️ We are so excited to share our Autumn Winter 2026 catalogue! Follow the link below to browse our fascinating upcoming titles 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/... Including titles by @rachelcordasco.bsky.social, @knick666.bsky.social, @bodhisattvac.bsky.social ... (1/2)

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Dr Bethan Scorey @bethanscorey.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

CARTREFI CYMRU SERIES 3 So excited to be back with Aled for a third series of Cartrefi Cymru. This time we’ll be looking at houses through the lens of different towns, starting with Blaenau Ffestiniog. TONIGHT at 8.25pm on S4C!

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Dr Bethan Scorey @bethanscorey.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

CARTREFI CYMRU CYFRES 3 Mor gyffrous i fod yn ôl gydag Aled am drydydd gyfres o Cartrefi Cymru. Y tro hwn byddwn ni’n edrych ar dai trwy lens gwahanol drefi, gan ddechrau ym Mlaenau Ffestiniog. HENO am 8.25yh ar S4C!

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Dr Shaun Evans of the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates at Bangor University has been awarded the 2026 Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize by the British Agricultural History Society for the Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/is...

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Huge congratulations to our ISWE Research & Engagement Officer, Dr Bethan Scorey, for having her research on Margam Castle published in the latest issue of the History Extra magazine. @bethanscorey.bsky.social

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South Wales Record Society @swalesrecordsoc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Really looking forward to launching this - Aberystwyth Arts Centre at 2pm on Saturday 6 June. Come and learn more about the history of this famous Picturesque landscaped estate.

Cover of book ‘THIS PRINCELY HABITATION’
THE HAFOD ESTATE UNDER THE 4TH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE,
1832–1846: image is Hafod House with woods and mountains in background

Back cover of book on the Hafod estate.
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Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle (1785–1851), of Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire, bought the Hafod estate in Ceredigion in 1832. Hafod had achieved its fame under the Welsh antiquarian and bibliophile Thomas Johnes (1748–1816), who developed its landscape to picturesque principles and made it a seat of private learning. Newcastle’s ownership of Hafod from 1832 1846, and his delight in its possibilities, is recorded in the extensive personal diaries which he maintained during the last three decades of his life. This edition publishes, for the first time, all the entries relating to Newcastle’s ownership of Hafod and his comments on the people and places that he encountered on his wider travels in Wales. The diaries offer fascinating insights into Newcastle’s motivations for purchasing and improving Hafod, his own devotion to picturesque principles and his attempts to make the estate well-managed and financially viable. Newcastle considered himself to be an adopted Welshman and immersed himself in aspects of Welsh life and culture at a time when the area was being opened to tourists. He also gave encouragement to these efforts, both through investing in new hotel facilities at Devil’s Bridge and by actively promoting improvements at Aberystwyth, particularly its harbour facilities and urban infrastructure. ...
Dr Richard A Gaunt is Associate Professor in British History at the University of Nottingham where he has worked since 2000. A historian of British politics, culture and society in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century, he has published widely on the politics and personalities of the period, including three related volumes of Newcastle’s diaries. Dr Gaunt is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries of London and is currently the co-editor of the journal Parliamentary History and of the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series.

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The Castle Studies Trust @castlestudies.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

On 15 April, our latest project starts, the co-funding of an engineering survey of the great gatehouse of the Edwardian castle of Ruthin. A major castle now ruined and then had a C19 mansion and gardens built on it there's still medieval remains read more here: castlestudiestrust.org/blog/2026/04...

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

‘Historically, architecturally and scenically, Nannau really matters’: Thomas Lloyd Nannau in The Georgian Group’s top 10 heritage buildings at risk list Read more here: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/na...

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 06/01/2026

🎙️ “My biggest passion, that started while I was working for the National Trust, is: how do we tell the stories that aren't being told?” For Radical Museums, Sharon Heal speaks to Marian Gwyn on her work to diversify heritage practices throughout her 30-year career: ow.ly/P9cV50XSpOm

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Huge congratulations to Dr @bethanscorey.bsky.social on her graduation at Bangor University today! Bethan produced a wonderful thesis on ‘St Fagans Castle: its Architectural and Landscape History’. She is ISWE’s 6th doctoral graduate. Llongyfarchiadau enfawr Bethan - we’re all really proud of you!

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🚨 New post. You may not have heard of Sidney Colwyn Foulkes but he was one of Britain’s most significant regional architects and the designer of some of its finest council housing. Adam Voelcker recounts his life and work. municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/s...

Cae Bricks estate, Beaumaris - terrace running down hill and view of Menai Straits and north Wales mountains

Elwy Road Estate, Rhos on Sea; red brick offset corner house and white-rendered terrace

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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🎂 Happy birthday to William Burges (1827 – 1881)! A visionary architect of the Victorian Gothic Revival, Burges reshaped Victorian design. St Mary's church, Studley Royal (James Hughes) Christ the Consoler, Skelton (James Hughes) Worcester College chapel Oxford. (Morgan Ellis Leah) #architect

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

'Sidney Colwyn Foulkes: The Architecture of a Reluctant Modernist' by Adam Voelcker is out now! This is the first study of the work of architect Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884–1971), one of Britain’s most significant regional architects. 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/sidney-...

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CBHC / RCAHMW @rcahmwales.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Is it too early to mention…our Christmas lecture?🎅 Join us in person or online on Thursday 4 December, 5pm for a whistlestop tour ‘From Air, Land and Sea’ charting the discoveries and survey work undertaken by our investigators in 2025. Book online now:zurl.co/GaqH7

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Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique

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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Join Llafur, in collaboration with the Cyfarthfa Foundation, to explore the rich history of Merthyr and the next steps in the story of its heritage. Also including the Llafur AGM 2025. 📆 Saturday 29 November 🕰️9.30am - 6pm 📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil 🎟️https://tinyurl.com/yb9cv7tm

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Finishing touches under way for my talk on Percy Thomas's interwar modern classicism at the Lutyens Trust conference on 1 November. #20s30s www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-it...

Two soaring fluted piers of black marble looking vertically up to a coffered ceiling with decoration picked out in gold and green and a round spiky light shade.

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Alex Ioannou @alexjioannou.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Honoured to be invited to share my work as the guest speaker at @archpbu.bsky.social's Annual Archives and Special Collections Lecture. November 12 17:30 -18:30 See you there! I am thankful for all the support I have received from the BUASC staff and @ystadaucymru.bsky.social.

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Challenging time(s): Exploring how we shape the past and future of Eryri through the exchange of material culture, Alex Ioannou

The first Annual Archives and Special Collections Lecture was delivered by Professor Owen Dudley Edwar

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Excellent to see this campaign to save Capel Rhondda, #Pontypridd Campaign to save Cwm Rhondda chapel for community www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Campaign to save Cwm Rhondda chapel for community

A campaign to save the chapel has raised almost half the funds needed after just four days.

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Huge congratulations to ISWE’s @bethanscorey.bsky.social who successfully defended her PhD thesis earlier today! Bethan’s thesis is a wonderfully expansive architectural history of St Fagans Castle, examined by Dr Ruth Larsen (Derby) & Dr Euryn Roberts (Bangor). Llongyfarchiadau enfawr Dr Scorey!!

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Dr Bethan Scorey @bethanscorey.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Recently had the pleasure of visiting the ‘No Welsh Art’ exhibition at NLW and the chance to chat with its curator Peter Lord. Read my report for ISWE here…

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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025 Former Marine Hotel, Penarth, Glamorgan. Grade II, perhaps Samuel Dobson, c.1865 Read more: t.co/5ehdITu4gL #Wales

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Golwg360 @golwg.360.cymru · 16/05/2025

Galw am ddiogelu adran archifau Prifysgol Bangor Mae’r adran yn rhan o ymgynghoriad i dorri 78 o swyddi mewn ymgais i arbed gwerth £5.3m

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Galw am ddiogelu adran archifau Prifysgol Bangor

Mae’r adran yn rhan o ymgynghoriad i dorri 78 o swyddi mewn ymgais i arbed gwerth £5.3m

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Dr Marian Gwyn, promoting the petition to save Bangor University Archives and Special Collections at our National Library of Wales earlier today. Please support: www.change.org/p/save-your-... Diolch! @archpbu.bsky.social

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Alex Ioannou @alexjioannou.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

A kind request to sign the petition to show support and solidarity with the Archives Team at the University of Bangor. The knowledge, skills and amazing resource is under direct threat of being lost due to proposed cuts. Help save our archives!

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SAVE YOUR ARCHIVE / ACHUBWCH EICH ARCHIFDY

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Lovely to see so many intelligent references to Sadie’s book in the ‘Wales & Europe in the Renaissance’ essays that I’m in the middle of marking. Doctoral research undertaken at Bangor informing how our undergraduates think about the history of Wales @bangorhistory.bsky.social

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Cambrian Archaeological Association @cambriansarch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

📢 Announcing #Cambrians Walks and Talks 2025! We have an amazing lineup of walks (free, led by experts) including Dinefwr (10 May), upland Blaenau Gwent (15 June), Llangollen Denbighshire (29 June), Hillfort at Moel Fenlli (9 Aug), and historic Bangor (16 Aug)! 😀 Info and booking: bit.ly/4ckpOAy

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Really looking forward to this tomorrow evening. Hope you’re able to join us! All welcome! @bangorhistory.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

'This is a book essential for the record of architecture in Wales in the twentieth century.' An excellent review of 'Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as a National Service' by @rproctor.bsky.social in Touchstone. Discover more about 'Percy Thomas', publishing in May www.uwp.co.uk/book/percy-t...

Percy Thomas book cover featuring a photo of the Temple of Peace in Cardiff.

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@C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

📢 Join C20 Cymru in Monmouthshire! Saturday 26 April We'll visit The Savoy Theatre for a talk on C20 theatres by Rob Firman, then go to High Glanau Manor, built for Henry Avray Tipping, editor of Country Life. We’ll have a tour of the Arts and Crafts gardens, followed by cream tea 🫖 bitly.cx/YmUA4

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Dr Bethan Scorey @bethanscorey.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Mae Cartrefi Cymru yn ôl heno! Our tv programme about Welsh houses, Cartrefi Cymru, resumes tonight at 8.25pm on S4C. In episode 6 we’ll be looking at houses from the 1920s and 1930s, so expect garden villages and Art Deco!

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Dr Bethan Scorey @bethanscorey.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Great afternoon at Margam Castle for the launch of the wonderful M[AR]GAM app, which allows users to explore the long-lost Library and Dining Room. Congratulations to all involved! @swanseauni.bsky.social @ystadaucymru.bsky.social

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